Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review

eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for June through September, 2026

Item	Title	Total requests	Download	View-only	%Dnld
68r750pm	From Revolutionary Culture to Original Culture and Back: “On New Democracy” and the Kampucheanization of Marxism-Leninism, 1940-1965	1,002	69	933	6.9%
55f6d1k8	Misrepresenting Atrocities: "Kill Anything that Moves" and the Continuing Distortions of the War in Vietnam	711	140	571	19.7%
42r43794	Defenders and Conquerors: The Rhetoric of Royal Power in Korean Inscriptions from the Fifth to Seventh Centuries	708	70	638	9.9%
6h85b8zs	Why Didn’t “Gangnam Style” Go Viral in Japan?: Gender Divide and Subcultural Heterogeneity in Contemporary Japan	685	177	508	25.8%
3jf1m788	The French Colonization and Japanese Occupation of Indochina during the Second World War: Encounters of the French, Japanese, and Vietnamese	649	153	496	23.6%
7209v5n2	"Music for a National Defense": Making Martial Music during the Anti-Japanese War	625	108	517	17.3%
92x8h59z	踏车而飞：自行车与中国骑车人（1868-1949 年）[A History of the Bicycle and Chinese Cyclists, 1868-1949]	580	228	352	39.3%
7qn1q8cx	Transformation of China's Urban Entrepreneurialism: The Case Study of the City of Kunshan	567	77	490	13.6%
02m6693f	The Game People Played: Mahjong in Modern Chinese Society and Culture	564	73	491	12.9%
5b34s57s	A History of Court and Commoner Clothing in Vietnam	543	196	347	36.1%
71b8t1xc	State Capacity in City Planning: The Reconstruction of Nanjing, 1927-1937	518	105	413	20.3%
2v98z7x8	Redefining the Moral and Legal Roles of the State in Everyday Life: The New Life Movement in China in the Mid-1930s	508	39	469	7.7%
9c93w8v1	Gender and Power Dynamics in Transnational Marriage Brokerage: The Ban on Commercial Matchmaking in Taiwan Reconsidered	505	63	442	12.5%
1bs7p91s	Networks, Parties, and the "Oppressed Nations": The Comintern and Chinese Communists Overseas, 1926-1935	488	143	345	29.3%
7pj4r9hc	The South Manchurian Railway Company and the Mining Industry: The Case of the Fushun Coal Mine	470	70	400	14.9%
9jf3g1ws	K-pop in Korea: How the Pop Music Industry is Changing a Post-Developmental Society	459	83	376	18.1%
0sv1m9gp	Migrant Labor and Massacres: A Comparison of the 1923 Massacre of Koreans and Chinese during the Great Kanto Earthquake and the 1931 Anti-Chinese Riots and Massacre of Chinese in Colonial Korea	458	78	380	17.0%
0wp0m58k	Imagining Female Heroism: Three Tales of the Female Knight-Errant in Republican China	441	154	287	34.9%
60z4p2nk	Triangulating Chōsen: Maps, Mapmaking, and the Land Survey in Colonial Korea	435	46	389	10.6%
7kt1r532	From Globalization to Liquidation: The Deutsch-Asiatische Bank and the First World War in China	427	64	363	15.0%
22s080jq	Life with Tetrapods: The Nature of Concrete in Okinawa	399	72	327	18.0%
0qz572b2	“We’re Never Off Duty”: Empire and the Economies of Race and Gender in the U.S. Military Camptowns of Korea	398	26	372	6.5%
1kn8961b	Cross-Border Brides: Vietnamese Wives, Chinese Husbands in a Border-Area Fishing Village	393	65	328	16.5%
2q59p54t	Mong La: Business as Usual in the China-Myanmar Borderlands	388	111	277	28.6%
25k405w7	Abuse of Modernity: Japanese Biological Determinism and Identity Management in Colonial Korea	368	84	284	22.8%
2bw3g3n4	State and Smuggling in Modern China: The Case of Guangzhouwan/Zhanjiang	359	53	306	14.8%
8sk4t97q	The Cult of Boudhanath Stupa/Jarung Khashar Suvraga in Mongolia: Texts, Images, and Architectural Replicas	352	178	174	50.6%
1h39c46v	"To Control Tibet, First Pacify Kham": Trade Routes and "Official Routes" (Guandao) in Easternmost Kham	338	69	269	20.4%
7sm3999r	Hallyu across the Desert: K-pop Fandom in Israel and Palestine	329	83	246	25.2%
75f0d25m	Specters of War in Pyongyang: The Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum in North Korea	328	65	263	19.8%
08p9j8zn	The Qing Challenge in Chosŏn Korea	322	80	242	24.8%
291303dx	"Chinese Children Rise Up!": Representations of Children in the Work of the Cartoon Propaganda Corps during the Second Sino-Japanese War	322	110	212	34.2%
4j51v506	National Agendas and Local Realities: Festive Material and Ritual Culture, Nationalism, and Modernity in the Chita Region of Japan	319	60	259	18.8%
502672b8	The Portraits of a Heroine: Huang Bamei and the Politics of Wartime History in China and Taiwan, 1930–1960	311	111	200	35.7%
20d241p2	Imagining the New Socialist Child: The Cultural Afterlife of the Child Martyr Wang Erxiao	305	80	225	26.2%
1073p32d	Victorianizing Guangxu: Arresting Flows, Minting Coins, and Exerting Authority in Early Twentieth-Century Kham	303	63	240	20.8%
42v707z1	War Remembered, Revolution Forgotten: Recasting the Sino-North Korean Alliance in China’s Post-Socialist Media State	292	68	224	23.3%
42p4f3vz	The “Fake Marriage” Test in Taiwan: Gender, Sexuality, and Border Control	291	22	269	7.6%
7p1048h7	On China's Cartographic Embrace: A View from Its Northern Rim	286	99	187	34.6%
90t6x5m8	Demystifying the Nation: The Communist Concept of Ethno-Nation in 1920s-1930s Korea	282	91	191	32.3%
02p2s3q9	China's Memory and Commemoration of the Korean War in the Memorial to Resist America and Aid (North) Korea	280	60	220	21.4%
439646s4	Cholera and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century Japan	279	62	217	22.2%
5r17c7g0	The "Da Ming Hunyi Tu": Repurposing a Ming Map in Sino-African Diplomacy	277	107	170	38.6%
67q2984p	Domesticating Hybridity: Straits Chinese Cultural Heritage Projects in Malaysia and Singapore	277	107	170	38.6%
1774w6t4	Predicated on the People: Legitimating Politics and Parties in Early Republican China	274	20	254	7.3%
9q29j8m3	Horai Rice in the Making of Japanese Colonial Taiwan	273	110	163	40.3%
2qs6h19b	New Revolutionary Agenda: The Interwar Japanese Left on the “Chinese Revolution”	268	38	230	14.2%
8tf1k10t	From “Customary” to “Illegal”: Yao Ethnic Marriages on the Sino-Vietnamese Border	267	64	203	24.0%
0s14m9b9	Wild Cities: The Renegade Roots of Urban Taiwan	266	100	166	37.6%
5hn0h95r	Youth and Political Music in Taiwan: Resignifying the Nation at Inland Rock and Tshingsan Fest	265	38	227	14.3%

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